President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev instructed by 1 August 2018 to approve programs for development of information technologies and communications in the regions for 2018-2020 and a targeted list of priority projects.

The State Inspectorate for Supervision in sphere of Communications, Informatization and Telecommunication Technologies has been transformed into the Inspectorate for Control in sphere of Communications, Informatization and Telecommunication Technologies under the Ministry for Development of Information Technologies and Communications of the Republic of Uzbekistan.

Uzbektelecom, a national telecom operator of Uzbekistan, hosted a meeting with the delegation of Russian communications national operator Rostelecom led by director of Department on work with international communications operator Maxim Akinin.